Start earning through affiliate programs. Here's how...?

I've listed here general steps needed to begin earning through affiliate programs. I'm trying to "break" into t-shirt scene. Reason I'm listing this is because I'm a noob and I wan't to be sure I'm doing everything right, so can you guys correct me if I'm going into wrong direction?

1. Choose & register cool domain name related to my niche.
- Done.

2. Set up a wordpress blog and cool theme relevant to my niche.
- Done.

I've listed here general steps needed to begin earning through affiliate programs. I'm trying to "break" into t-shirt scene. Reason I'm listing this is because I'm a noob and I wan't to be sure I'm doing everything right, so can you guys correct me if I'm going into wrong direction?

1. Choose & register cool domain name related to my niche.
- Done.

2. Set up a wordpress blog and cool theme relevant to my niche.
- Done.

Not really sure how much there would to be write about T-shirts but I do know that in order to rank high in search engines, you need fresh updated and constant flowing content. You might run into a few small hurdles regarding that.

I had this idea a few weeks back regarding Ts but I was going to do it slightly different.

Here where I live, I'm near a printing company where my fiance works. They do custom T-shirts with pretty much anything printed on them for cheap cheap.
I was going to do a few designs with quotes on them like:

For Kids or babies example: "All my daddy wanted was a blow job!"

Anyway, the above was a joke example but you get the idea...I was going to promote original, funny and controversial T-shirts and sell them.
I think it would have worked out pretty well too, but because of that article issue, I shot the idea down and left it.

But does it matter how and where I post the articles in my blog?
I mean, If I post lot of products there and then blend in some articles, doesn't it distract visitors from the actual purpose of my blog: buying t-shirts?
Should I create a new page on my blog and post all the articles there, separate them from the products ?

Quite the opposite actually. You want your articles to blend in with your products; thats the key here!

people wont come to your site to buy T-Shirts primarily because search engines will send people your way from the articles the spiders see. So you really want to use the articles as an advantage and advertise products along with the articles (possibly even have T's for sale within the articles). That would generate your best results in my opinion.

Quite the opposite actually. You want your articles to blend in with your products; thats the key here!

people wont come to your site to buy T-Shirts primarily because search engines will send people your way from the articles the spiders see. So you really want to use the articles as an advantage and advertise products along with the articles (possibly even have T's for sale within the articles). That would generate your best results in my opinion.

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ah... I'm starting to realize the power of articles now...
hmmm.... I think I'm going to build my blog product posts in a way like BagBunch.com does. But I think I need to hire someone to do the writing job as I suck writing

Why on earth did you go for T-shirts? Why not go for a niche that you know a lot about and then find a related affiliate program. Then you will avoid a whole bunch of problems including the content one. How much can you really write about T-shirts?

Why on earth did you go for T-shirts? Why not go for a niche that you know a lot about and then find a related affiliate program. Then you will avoid a whole bunch of problems including the content one. How much can you really write about T-shirts?

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Well, I heard there's money to be made in t-shirt business and no matter what niche I would have chosen, at some point I would have outsourced the writing jobs anyways.

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